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New ideas: Faculty present research at major conferences

Faculty are breaking new ground, often by partnering or collaborating with industry. Last month, W. P. Carey was well-represented at two of the premier international conferences, presenting some of this new work.

2016-01-25

W. P. Carey’s information systems and analytics faculty are pushing the boundaries of research in their fields and are publishing in the top peer-reviewed IS journals. Often, the first step to a top-tier journal is a presentation at one of the research meetings of the discipline. This winter, Department of Information Systems was well represented at two major international conferences. “A key differentiator of many of these papers is that data and context for the research came from our industry partners and collaborators — and we very much appreciate their support,” said Professor Raghu Santanam, department chairman. “It’s great to see our faculty leveraging the insights from their industry collaborators to make valuable contributions to the industry and society.”

Two of the most important IS conferences were held in Dallas/Fort Worth in December: the Workshop on Information Systems (WISE) and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). WISE is a forum for the discussion of information systems through the lens of economics — how IT, in all its forms, addresses important business and societal questions. The following papers were presented at WISE:

Sang-Pil Han, Bin Zhang and Rubin Geng. “Economics of ‘Tipping’ Button in Social Media: An Empirical Analysis of Content Monetization.”

Sang-Pil Han, Bin Zhang and Rubin Geng. “Economics of ‘Tipping’ Button in Social Media: An Empirical Analysis of Content Monetization.”

Sang-Pil Han, Bin Zhang and Rubin Geng. “Economics of ‘Tipping’ Button in Social Media: An Empirical Analysis of Content Monetization.”

Irfan Kanat, Yili Hong and Raghu Santanam. “Surviving and Thriving in the Online Labor Markets: A Geoeconomic Analysis.”

Reza Mousavi. “Representation, Homophily, and Polarization in The U.S. House of Representatives in the Twitter Era (Dissertation).”

ICIS 2015, which convened immediately after WISE,  is the major annual meeting of the Association for Information Systems. With more than 4,000 members representing universities in about 95 countries worldwide it provides a forum for networking and  for sharing the latest ideas and highest caliber scientific work in the IS profession. The theme was Exploring the Information Frontier. The following papers from W. P. Carey researchers were part of the ICIS proceedings:

Sang-Pil Han, Wonseok Oh, Jaeyun Moon and Jinpyo Hong. “The Economics of All-You-Can-Read Pricing: Tariff Choice, Contract Renewal, and Switching for E-Book Purchases.” Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Information Systems, Dallas, Texas, 2015.

Sang-Pil Han, Wonseok Oh, Jaeyun Moon and Jinpyo Hong. “The Economics of All-You-Can-Read Pricing: Tariff Choice, Contract Renewal, and Switching for E-Book Purchases.”

Ni Huang, Yili Hong and Gord Burtch. “Anonymity and Language Usage: A Natural Experiment of Social Network Integration.”

Gord Burtch, Yili Hong, Ravi Bapna and Vladas Griskevicius. “What Are Social Incentives Worth? A Randomized Field Experiment in User Content Generation.”

Yili Hong, Yuheng Hu and Gord Burtch. “How does Social Media Affect Contribution to Public versus Private Goods in Crowdfunding Campaigns?”

Zuyin Zheng, Yili Hong and Paul Pavlou. “Value Uncertainty and Buyer Contracting: Evidence from Online Labor Markets.”

Irfan Kanat, Raghu T. S. and Ajay Vinze. “Consumer Choice in the Software Market, Poster.”

Reza Mousavi, and Raghu T. S., Keith Frey. “Assessing Order Effects in Online Community-based Health Forums.” Watch for reports on some of these papers in future issues of KnowIT.

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